In this recruitment process in Shang Yuan Village, Xiang Yong, who was in his early 300s, was finally selected as Li Tai’s new hero.
Not to mention that these three hundred people are tall, most of them are capable of firing a three-stone bow and can walk quickly with a hundred kilograms of weight. They are all good martial artists in Guanzhong and have some experience in the military. The only problem is that they are not really good at riding.
There are only thirty or forty people who can reach the standard of riding and shooting.
After all, raising horses is still a very luxurious behavior for ordinary people in the pass. Even Liu Sanqi, an old soldier who participated in the Battle of Shayuan and followed Li Tai into the pass, had no riding skills at all, let alone those who had just entered the pass.
New soldiers recruited.
But this is not a big problem. These new soldiers need to be trained before they can go into battle to kill the enemy.
The training of new soldiers can be left to the old soldiers that He Basheng left to Li Tai. Most of these old soldiers have injuries and illnesses, and it is difficult for them to wear armor again, but their past military experience still requires heavy physical labor.
If you are not qualified, you can arrange training for new recruits to use your remaining energy.
Some of these more than 300 village warriors are wealthy and powerful, some are landless people, and some are from households with equal land. However, Director Yuwen and the county magistrates are all here, so they can open the door directly, which saves the trouble of further negotiations.
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Apart from the different sources of troops and organizational forms, another important difference between the Xiang Tuan and the Imperial Guards, the Sixth Army and other formal armed forces is that the Imperial Guard and the Sixth Army are completely off-the-job professional soldiers.
In addition to fighting, he also had to work part-time in production.
The powerful private armies are somewhere between the two, and they need to raise their own armor, horses, equipment and supplies. The powerful military leaders have different levels of wealth, and the combat effectiveness and organizational power of their troops are also different. The powerful military leaders have different private weapons.
The armed forces are even far stronger than the regular Sixth Army.
No matter what status these newly recruited local warriors had before, from now on, they and their families have become Li Tai's tribe.
Because of this private military nature, the imperial court and prefectures and counties generally reject powerful private equity households, because it will cause the loss of a large number of tax revenue units. However, they have to accept this phenomenon. In the final analysis, people are poor and have short ambitions, because
The government's finances simply cannot support so many retired troops.
The development of the government army system can be divided into several stages. Starting from the ninth year of Datong, the main target was Guan Long Hao You, recruiting these powerful tribes and private armies.
Yu Wentai wanted to play a big game this year and expanded the recruitment scale of the township regiment, but it almost collapsed. With the current administrative and organizational capabilities of Bafu, it is simply impossible to sustain such a large-scale expansion of troops. So the next step
The policy will definitely return to using the powerful as the recruitment unit and delegating power to maintain the scale of the armed forces.
Therefore, the early government soldiers were a patchwork of private songs by powerful military chiefs of all sizes. When the government army system was formed in the last years of the Datong Dynasty, Yu Wentai gave the surname Hu and stipulated that the government soldiers must change their surnames to the surnames of generals and masters.
Acknowledge the private nature of the soldiers and win over the middle-level generals of the soldiers to strengthen their control over the soldiers.
There is no shortage of people in later generations who are curious about why the powerful people of Guanlong could bear to abandon their ancestral surnames and accept the Hu surname. This is because the prerequisite for the formalization of private songs is to accept the given surname. When most people accept this system, even if there are some noises,
will be eliminated as unstable factors that undermine harmony.
Therefore, the great granting of the Hu surname has little to do with Huhua or Sinicization. It is a distribution of military resources with Yuwentai and other eight-pillar states as the core. The weak have something to rely on and will not be disorderly annexed by the strong.
The characteristic of the imperial army during this period was that it had the dual nature of the regular military force of the imperial court and the private affairs of the generals. The support of the army was shared by all members of the system, and the amount of power required the same amount of obligations.
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As the supreme commander of the army, the Liuzhu Kingdom established a system of raising the army jointly by the six families. During this period, the main task of the army was to fight. Although they also participated in the guard, it mainly depended on the relationship between the generals and the emperor.
Relationship.
This situation lasted until the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when the sergeants of the imperial army were changed into aides-de-camp, the imperial army and the imperial guards were institutionalized, the emperor and the individual imperial soldiers were directly connected, and the imperial court officially recruited the imperial soldiers on a large scale and provided financial supplies.
, the private nature of Fubing gradually faded away.
The development of Li Tai's power can be regarded as a typical example of the early period of the imperial army. Although he was awarded the position of governor, the court and the government did not give him a single soldier. All sergeants, equipment and supplies had to be raised by himself.
Therefore, how much power he, the Grand Governor, can control depends on how much energy he has. Any orders issued by the Bafu are only for him. He himself is a combat unit, and his troops are only subordinate to him.
Director Yu Wen stayed in Shang Yuan for a long time before saying goodbye and returning to Huazhou City, while the county envoys stayed to discuss the details of the suppression of bandits with Li Tai.
More than 300 new soldiers still need to be trained, and the only ones Li Tai can use at the moment are the old soldiers.
When he went to northern Shaanxi, there were about 600 troops, but when he returned, there were only more than 400 people left. Several administrative officers summoned some troops, and now the number of troops that can carry out anti-bandit operations has returned to six hundred.
More than a hundred people.
Although there are not many in number, due to their sophisticated armor and horses and strong mobility, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. Unless they are big bandits who have tens of thousands of people and have power across states and counties, ordinary bandits can be controlled by hand.
Of course, if there were such big bandits, it wouldn't be necessary for Li Tai to take action. The imperial court would arrange for the expedition to be carried out on its own, and the people and materials seized would be wealth.
These counties invited Li Tai to enter the country to suppress bandits, and they were naturally responsible for military supplies.
However, based on the idea that the new business had just started and needed gifts, Li Tai did not ask for too high a reward. He only asked the county to provide part of the horse materials and bandit information. He was responsible for the sergeants' supplies, but he needed full authority to handle the spoils.
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Such conditions can be described as very generous. When Li Tai proposed it, he immediately received loud praise from the envoys from the counties present.
To be honest, if possible, who would want bandits to be rampant in their own country?
However, bandits that have been around for a long time are usually related to the powerful families in the territory, and the township regiments often return without success. The powerful people support the bandits with self-respect, which is also a tacit understanding in the township that cannot be expressed in words.
With the existence of bandits, county officials need to rely on the power of powerful families and need to be polite. The intrusion of bandits makes the people's living environment extremely poor, exacerbating the dependence of ordinary villagers on powerful families.
Although there are some military leaders who directly send food and garrison to the local area, this part of the armed forces is not under the jurisdiction of counties and counties, and counties and counties have no obligation to provide for it. You can use it if you want to, just send money, food and materials first. How many materials can one head be exchanged for?
Plan clearly first.
Some army leaders who are starved of food will take the initiative to attack the bandits. But after the battle, they will stay in the county offices. You need to bear my expenses for marching and fighting!
Therefore, sometimes, it is not that county and county officials do not want to eliminate bandits within their territory, but that they cannot afford to do so.
As long as the bandit troubles don't go too far, they don't even dare to report it. If the Taiwanese government really wants to send thousands of troops to enter the country to clean up the bandits, even if all the bandits are killed, the treasury will be empty. Who is the soldier and who is the bandit? In this kind of situation,
It's really hard to say under the circumstances.
But now that Li Tai, the leader of the banditry, has entered the scene, the cost of suppressing bandits has been greatly reduced, and the envoys from these counties have less worries. They rushed to raise their hands to speak, and each proposed the needs of suppressing bandits within their territory.
Seeing this scene of enthusiastic crowds, Li Tai couldn't help but be surprised. Is the banditry problem in various areas of the pass so serious? How can you still be able to hold on! Are you really asking me to suppress the bandits, or do you want to
Take advantage of this and use me as a knife to eliminate dissidents?
Business is too good but it is also troublesome. After all, Li Tai only has about 600 men to dispatch at the moment, and most of them have just experienced the fierce guerrilla war in northern Shaanxi and are still waiting for Shili to recuperate.
So he put forward several conditions, stipulating that the first batch of bandits to be suppressed must have a fixed range of activities, within a hundred miles to the left and right of the Luoshui River Basin, and must have conclusive evidence of crimes and actual records of invading counties, counties, and cities.
If they are really the kind of bandits who move around and have no fixed whereabouts, it will be a waste of time to track them down. If they escape to counties where there is no agreement to suppress the bandits, it will also be troublesome to argue with them.
Not to mention that county officials took revenge for personal gain. Just because the powerful villagers refused to obey the rules, they returned to banditry. After they committed the crime, they found out that it was a false accusation. Who will be responsible when the Taiwan government investigates? What's more, I plan to do this along the Luoshui River. Everyone
If you do this, it will be chaos, and the country will not be a country!
With these few limiting conditions, the next scene was no longer chaotic. Everyone made their own choices, and then the masses judged them. Finally, four groups of gangsters were selected who were considered to have caused serious troubles.
Li Tai had a brief understanding of the situation of these bandits, and couldn't help but sigh that the bandit situation in Kansai was indeed quite serious.
The longest existing road has actually been active for decades. It has existed since the time when the Wanqi Chou slaves rebelled in Kansai. It was first active in the southwest of Wonju and only gradually moved to the southeast in recent years. It was still active after the Mangshan War last year.
They fought to the south of Baishui County in the Guanzhong Plain, surrounded the county town several times, and plundered without success.
Other bandit leaders even served as state and county officials in the early years of the Great Unification. Because they refused to obey the overlord's orders, they became bandits and controlled an area to establish county control.
Li Tai then agreed with the envoys from these counties on a date for dispatching troops to suppress the bandits, and the conversation ended only when the villagers came to report that guests were visiting.
He had just walked out of the nave when several Feng's little faces came up to him with a tight face, but he said in a crying tone: "It's something bad about me that makes you disgusted, brother, so you called someone else to educate me and drive me away."
go out?"
When Li Tai heard this, he was immediately confused. He patted his head and frowned and asked, "Where did you hear these evil words?"
"Do you still need to listen to what others say? I have already seen that someone came into the school to ask about things, and asked my brother what kind of teaching you do!"
When Shuofeng said this, his tone turned angry: "I only said that we have a deep friendship with you, brother, but I didn't expect that just because I can no longer visit and deliver messages to Lady Miaoyin for you, brother, you will choose someone else to take my seat."